[ubuntu-uk] Firefox and BBC video (sigh)

[alan c]

alan c wrote:
> alan c wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>>> alan c wrote:

[...]

>>> Whilst not brilliantly elegant, one solution is to use the 
>>> MediaPlayerConnectivity extension 
>>> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446). In the set-up 
>>> wizard's drop-down menu entry for RealMedia, change the setting to 
>>> "realplay (/usr/bin)".
>>> 
>>> Having selected the required link, the familiar BBC embedded player 
>>> window appears. Click on the icon and the link will open in RealPlayer.
>> 
>> thanks it could be a useful option - but in my machine I get sound 
>> from realplayer  just now, and no picture. Maybe my realplayer 
>> environment has been disturbed by the other actions in this thread?
> 
> sorted ok.
> I seemed to have realplayer installed twice in different places and 
> after doing some cl renaming to '-old' and restarting the machine, and 
> checking through the sound system, I get sound and video when using 
> the connectivity plugin Great, thanks.
> 
> (When real player windows starts, I see a couple of realplay icons in 
> it not just one, so maybe I still have some duplication somewhere).

whoops. Spoke too soon, there is unpredictability here, sometimes 
sound only sometimes vision only, although both can be got after some 
various (not yet systematic) actions.
-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391